Authors
BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, Fausto Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams, Rana X Adhikari, VB Adya, C Affeldt, M Agathos, K Agatsuma, N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, L Aiello, A Ain, P Ajith, G Allen, A Allocca, MA Aloy, PA Altin, A Amato, A Ananyeva, SB Anderson, WG Anderson, SV Angelova, S Antier, S Appert, K Arai, MC Araya, JS Areeda, M Arène, N Arnaud, KG Arun, STEFANO Ascenzi, G Ashton, SM Aston, P Astone, F Aubin, P Aufmuth, K AultONeal, C Austin, V Avendano, A Avila-Alvarez, S Babak, P Bacon, F Badaracco, MKM Bader, S Bae, PT Baker, F Baldaccini, G Ballardin, SW Ballmer, S Banagiri, JC Barayoga, SE Barclay, BC Barish, D Barker, K Barkett, S Barnum, F Barone, B Barr, L Barsotti, M Barsuglia, D Barta, J Bartlett, I Bartos, R Bassiri, A Basti, M Bawaj, JC Bayley, M Bazzan, B Bécsy, M Bejger, I Belahcene, AS Bell, D Beniwal, BK Berger, G Bergmann, S Bernuzzi, JJ Bero, CPL Berry, D Bersanetti, A Bertolini, J Betzwieser, R Bhandare, J Bidler, IA Bilenko, SA Bilgili, G Billingsley, J Birch, R Birney, O Birnholtz, S Biscans, S Biscoveanu, A Bisht, M Bitossi, MA Bizouard, JK Blackburn, CD Blair, DG Blair, RM Blair, S Bloemen, N Bode, M Boer, Y Boetzel, G Bogaert, F Bondu, E Bonilla, R Bonnand, P Booker, BA Boom, CD Booth, R Bork, V Boschi, S Bose, K Bossie, V Bossilkov, J Bosveld, Y Bouffanais, A Bozzi, C Bradaschia, PR Brady, A Bramley, M Branchesi, JE Brau, T Briant, JH Briggs, F Brighenti, A Brillet, M Brinkmann, V Brisson, P Brockill, AF Brooks, DD Brown, S Brunett, A Buikema, T Bulik, HJ Bulten, A Buonanno, R Buscicchio, D Buskulic, C Buy, RL Byer, M Cabero, L Cadonati, G Cagnoli, C Cahillane, J Calderón Bustillo, TA Callister
Publication date
2019/9/9
Journal
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume
882
Issue
2
Pages
L24
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Description
The second LIGO/Virgo observing run (O2) spanned 9 months between 2016 November and 2017 August, building on the first, 4-month run (O1) in 2015. The LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave (GW) interferometer network is composed of two instruments in the United States (LIGO; LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. 2015; Abbott et al. 2016a) and a third in Europe (Virgo; Acernese et al. 2015), the latter joining the run in the summer of 2017. In total, 10 binary black hole (BBH) mergers have been detected to date(Abbott et al. 2018a). The BBHs detected possess a wide range of physical properties. The lightest so far is GW170608(Abbott et al. 2017a), with an inferred total mass of Г+ 18.7 0.7 3.3 M. GW170729(Abbott et al. 2018a)—exceptional in several ways—is likely to be the heaviest BBH to date, having total mass Г+ 85.2 11.2 15.4 M, as well as the most distant, at redshift Г+ 0.48 0.20 0.19. Both GW151226 …
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